Authors
BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, Fausto Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams, Rana X Adhikari, VB Adya, C Affeldt, M Agathos, K Agatsuma, N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, L Aiello, A Ain, P Ajith, G Allen, A Allocca, MA Aloy, PA Altin, A Amato, A Ananyeva, SB Anderson, WG Anderson, SV Angelova, S Antier, S Appert, K Arai, MC Araya, JS Areeda, M Arène, N Arnaud, KG Arun, STEFANO Ascenzi, G Ashton, SM Aston, P Astone, F Aubin, P Aufmuth, K AultONeal, C Austin, V Avendano, A Avila-Alvarez, S Babak, P Bacon, F Badaracco, MKM Bader, S Bae, PT Baker, F Baldaccini, G Ballardin, SW Ballmer, S Banagiri, JC Barayoga, SE Barclay, BC Barish, D Barker, K Barkett, S Barnum, F Barone, B Barr, L Barsotti, M Barsuglia, D Barta, J Bartlett, I Bartos, R Bassiri, A Basti, M Bawaj, JC Bayley, M Bazzan, B Bécsy, M Bejger, I Belahcene, AS Bell, D Beniwal, BK Berger, G Bergmann, S Bernuzzi, JJ Bero, CPL Berry, D Bersanetti, A Bertolini, J Betzwieser, R Bhandare, J Bidler, IA Bilenko, SA Bilgili, G Billingsley, J Birch, R Birney, O Birnholtz, S Biscans, S Biscoveanu, A Bisht, M Bitossi, MA Bizouard, JK Blackburn, CD Blair, DG Blair, RM Blair, S Bloemen, N Bode, M Boer, Y Boetzel, G Bogaert, F Bondu, E Bonilla, R Bonnand, P Booker, BA Boom, CD Booth, R Bork, V Boschi, S Bose, K Bossie, V Bossilkov, J Bosveld, Y Bouffanais, A Bozzi, C Bradaschia, PR Brady, A Bramley, M Branchesi, JE Brau, T Briant, JH Briggs, F Brighenti, A Brillet, M Brinkmann, V Brisson, P Brockill, AF Brooks, DD Brown, S Brunett, A Buikema, T Bulik, HJ Bulten, A Buonanno, R Buscicchio, D Buskulic, C Buy, RL Byer, M Cabero, L Cadonati, G Cagnoli, C Cahillane, J Calderón Bustillo, TA Callister
Publication date
2019/9/9
Journal
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume
882
Issue
2
Pages
L24
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Description
The second LIGO/Virgo observing run (O2) spanned 9 months between 2016 November and 2017 August, building on the first, 4-month run (O1) in 2015. The LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave (GW) interferometer network is composed of two instruments in the United States (LIGO; LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. 2015; Abbott et al. 2016a) and a third in Europe (Virgo; Acernese et al. 2015), the latter joining the run in the summer of 2017. In total, 10 binary black hole (BBH) mergers have been detected to date(Abbott et al. 2018a). The BBHs detected possess a wide range of physical properties. The lightest so far is GW170608(Abbott et al. 2017a), with an inferred total mass of Г+ 18.7 0.7 3.3 M. GW170729(Abbott et al. 2018a)—exceptional in several ways—is likely to be the heaviest BBH to date, having total mass Г+ 85.2 11.2 15.4 M, as well as the most distant, at redshift Г+ 0.48 0.20 0.19. Both GW151226 …
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